Bolsheviks formally prohibited school corporal punishment in 1917, with uneven enforcement

Evidence

The February and October Revolutions of 1917 destroyed the Russian imperial state and its educational apparatus. The Bolshevik government’s first educational decrees — issued by Anatoly Lunacharsky as People’s Commissar of Enlightenment — abolished the parish-school system, secularized education, and formally prohibited corporal punishment in schools. The prohibition was real at the policy level. Its implementation across the vast territory of the emerging Soviet state was uneven. — , The Rod and the Child, 5581

Categorization

• XREF: The policy-vs-implementation gap prefigures Episode 92’s Makarenko collectivist discipline and echoes the earlier episode on imperial inconsistency. — connects to: Soviet collective discipline supplanted Orthodox household pedagogy after 1917 — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3348; A 1936 Soviet decree standardized collective discipline and banned corporal punishment — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5605

Related

• Soviet collective discipline supplanted Orthodox household pedagogy after 1917 (similarity 0.92)
• A 1936 Soviet decree standardized collective discipline and banned corporal punishment (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• A 1936 Soviet decree standardized collective discipline and banned corporal punishment #expands (0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 5605